Azure Virtual Desktop Setup Made Easy - Step-by-step Guide

[@servantofgod1374]

Oh man, am I glad that you've begun making videos on Azure now? The way you explain things is amazing and so practical too.

[@johnwarde2409]

Another great video Jonathan, AVD is something I want to start offering to my Clients, so thanks very much. Your idea about doing a separate video on calculating pricing would be greatly appreciated, I often find the azure pricing calculator a challenge and am never actually sure if I trust it.

[@bearded365guy]

Thanks John. Azure pricing isn’t very clear is it!?

[@olivermartin2670]

End of last year I found a video and I tried to implement this. Now , I found your video and this one is excellent, way better than the one I found last year. But, not just this video, all your videos are excellent. Thanks

[@bearded365guy]

Thanks Oliver

[@sandsandeeps]

Jon Thank you immensely for simplifying such a complex subject matter with precision and clarity. Your videos are incredibly informative and straight to the point. Keep up the fantastic work!

[@bearded365guy]

Thank you 🙏

[@CharltonAwesome]

I was stuck on this for about 16 hours. This didn't answer my question, but it did answer others I was going to have. I figured it out thanks to you. Thank you for the great good video.

[@deeb6545]

Man, this was right on time!! I just had my supervisor ask me about a solution like this for some upcoming temp employees located across the US. I followed this exactly and it works perfectly! I’m going to be greedy and ask if you could do a video on configuring a thin client to connect automatically.

[@bearded365guy]

Very greedy 😀

[@jacobjones5675]

I cannot express well enough just how impressed I am with the charisma and attention to detail you have. Both very enjoyable and informational.

[@MatthewsTechHub]

Thanks for your help with this Jonathan. One of my clients was using Windows 365 but they are now looking to move over to Azure Virtual Desktop and this tutorial made it easy to setup and follow!

[@qmacker]

A video so excellent I'm saving it. Truly well done. You have the knowledge but you can also teach! One thing I noticed on the Security Type (as of 8/27/24) is that choosing "Trusted launch virtual machines" DOES now auto-check the third "Integrity monitoring" box below. Thanks so much for this!

[@GlenPalmer-Trev]

Love the video - I would also welcome a video on Azure pricing, especially for things like AVD. Secondly, I'd like a better understanding of how we can pre-install software applications on the AVD so we can have everyone that logs into AVD already have access to everything required. It seems right now, we need to install many applications separately on each user's profile.

[@nazerbor3i]

And another great video, you sir are tackling real world scenarios and modern work issues, you are the best

[@mikaelhansen8035]

You added "all users" group rather than "AVD Users" to both assignment and Resource Group permissions. Othat than that it was a very sound video, great explaining and well paced!

[@bearded365guy]

I know. Slight mistake

[@jiSh]

I recommend to configure sign in frequency in the conditional access policy for a prod environment, for anyone rolling this out to contractors using personal device as well

[@bradpeters9511]

If videos could be gold this video would be pure gold. Thank you for a very easy to understand guide that has gone into my playbook.

[@bearded365guy]

Thanks Brad!

[@thbadmin7751]

You added the wrong group (All Users) at 18:50 it should have been AVD Users. Consistency is important....Just saying.

[@bearded365guy]

Yes, I made a mistake. Sorry about that.

[@KhalilCodes]

I'm a developer and learning Azure... and just found this awesome channel !!! SUBSCRIBED!!!!

[@CraigTompkins1]

Great video Jonathan. Would it be a good guess to think the next video might be how to install corporate apps to AVD?

[@bearded365guy]

Yes, we’ll look at some advanced features of AVD soon

[@abhiisawant]

Would love to see more videos on Azure related topics, PIM, Sentinel, deployment on AVD etc. Great work on making simple and understandale demos for rest M365.

[@Muktakeshable]

Thanks! One of the best AVD setup video with IAM policy etc. Keep up the good work.

[@j-center837]

Should you put the app server in a different resource group? Like in your second example company?

[@michaelfranzyshen8241]

Jonathan, Love this channel and appreciate your Azure expertise. One question: How does VDI differ from Desktop as a Service (DaaS) in the Microsoft world? What is the use case for DaaS vs. VDI?

[@MuhammadMehdi-or9fx]

Great video! This step-by-step guide for setting up Azure Virtual Desktop was incredibly helpful. Thanks for the clear and informative walkthrough.

[@mav3783]

Nice one, I've been systadm for AWS cloud for yes, recently had Azure account put my way. Just wasn't sure on the terminology, Thanks the crash just subbed 👍

[@thedonfranz]

Great Video, I hope you update this with current tips and tricks 8 months after this video has been created. I think AVD is much easier to setup than the VMWare Horizon that Im used to.

[@Chathumal2011]

I have never seen such clearly explained tutorial before 😃

[@hamankumar]

Well explained, so amazing with examples, Appreciate for your efforts

[@ronniiversen6879]

Hey Jonathan, not sure if I just missed it, but you didnt go through the part where you would explain how to shutdown the other VM's while out of office hours?

[@henkjansen92]

Hi Jonathan, I’m a big fan of you, watching every single video. I wonder how would you price the AVD environment to you 11 and 50 user client? Do you find out, if there is a bare minimum from a user count perspective? Thank you so much.

[@bearded365guy]

I think I need to make a video of this because there are so many things to consider

[@michaeledwards2419]

Excellent as always. Thanks, Jonathan.

[@trakba]

At 15:55 should the "public inbound ports be yes" so that people doing the demo at home can login to the VM ?

[@adinbu]

Thank you very much for the detailed video. It really helped me understand the entire process.

[@patrick__007]

Great AVD video! What about configuring AVD when still using on prem ADDS?

[@bearded365guy]

Yes! Possible, I didn’t cover it in this one. Maybe in the future

[@patrick__007]

@@bearded365guy Thanks!

[@fbifido2]

What if you have a Windows 2019/2022 server in Azure, how would you make the users single-sign-on to it? like a file server or print server, or a LOB app that requires login? how to Entra-ID joined Server OS and also add it to Intune?

[@bearded365guy]

OK, so for us…… if we needed an app server/SQL server we would have a domain in Azure running AVD. This would mean a DC and using FSLogix for profiles.

[@fredito4ever]

Love your channel Jonathan. I was missing Windows 365 in this video (especially the comparison), but I was happy to find your earlier Windows 365 video.

[@Doves96]

thanks Jonathan great video. I am seeing a lot about fslogix as well. How does this fit into all this? what are people using in place of roaming user profiles these days in a physical ad server environment?

[@bearded365guy]

Yes, fslogix replaces roaming profiles. In my video i only used one session host so fslogix wasn’t required. In bigger implementations where you’re using multiple session hosts, then you would need to implement fslogix.

[@Doves96]

@@bearded365guy Cheers Jonathan. What are people using these days is a physical AD deployments. I still have a few customers who yearn for roaming profiles but i refuse to use them. I did here that fslogix can be use used in and old school non virtualised environment. Is there any truth to that? Thanks

[@bearded365guy]

@@Doves96 Yes, I think they can. We have a customer with AD on premise and using fslogix for profiles….

[@wumpus01]

great video, thank you! We are starting to look into AVD instead of Citrix DaaS. Same ideas mostly, Citrix offers their layer of management that differs from AVD, but it's $$. If I can get a similar administrative experience then AVD might be for us when our Citrix sub expires!

[@dj_paultuk7052]

What would you say the yearly cost is for a virtual desktop as per the spec you just did. 2 Cores, 8GB, 128GB, Win11 and Office365 installed ?. Wondering if this would be a cheaper option to supplying corporate grade laptops, and move to a BYOD policy. Im an IT admin in a relatively small UK company with 260 laptops/PC's currently.

[@bearded365guy]

The cost savings for Azure VD are when you have multiple servers available during business hours and then only one or two out of hours. With clever design you can control costs. We have several clients using this method.

[@thbadmin7751]

What Azure subscription(s) would be required for this?? Would have be nice if you would have mentioned that.....

[@bearded365guy]

You just add a PAYG subscription

[@syncj838]

Hi Jonathan, what do you say to small/med businesses that still need to purchase thin clients in addition to the AVDs, from their point of view it would be 2x the cost but is this offset with the centralisation benefits that the AVDs provide?

[@bearded365guy]

I don’t see too many businesses going down the thin client route. Thin clients are expensive even at the side of a standard device with an i3 processor. I do get the advantages of thin clients though.

[@syncj838]

@@bearded365guy Ahh I see, so in this case would the end users be using BYOD?

[@M365tunes]

1. If I have my users located at Europe and Asias region then do I need to create different Resource groups for each of them and create Hostpools accordingly, will it cause streaming issues for user when they access from different regions ? 2. If I have Intune deploying required security Apps and Config policies, how do I on board and deploy them if I choose AD join ? as Users need to access on prem infra and there's no Hybrid Entra join option. Thanks.

[@cathrach9576]

Another fantastic tutorial! Is it possible to do a tutorial on pros and cons of going Azure Virtual Desktop vs Configuring a Byod?

[@bearded365guy]

Yes!

[@arizni]

Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the video. What type of license does the individual user required to connect to Azure VD?

[@fbifido2]

how do you manage the DNS when it comes to AVD, because each host is in a workgroup or any Extra-ID joined device is in a workgroup.

[@familyTV-of9zg]

such a great video and explanation can we have more details about the speed of the virtual machine it is a good enough to run a massive programs for example graphic designing programs and more ?

[@danzirulez]

few clicks on All users instead of AVD users? :) What's your take on Windows365?

[@bearded365guy]

Yes, I made a mistake! I should’ve added AVD users instead of all users

[@sweetgeorgieboy4342]

you, still, da man!@@bearded365guy

[@fbifido2]

How do you secure those AVD-host? prevent user from install executable, web-apps, malware, virus, etc... prevent them from changing major settings for the application to run. how do you manage the users settings, you did not deploy FSLogix?

[@kellyc9331]

One thing that caused me pain was Azure VM quotas causing the Host Pool template to fail repeatedly. MIght be a good topic to include on an update of this video.

[@fbifido2]

With the law firm scenario did you deploy FSLogix ?

[@bearded365guy]

Yes, we did.

[@vishalvarma4511]

Hey Jonathan, Thanks for making this video! :) I just want to confirm where the profiles get stored? Like we need storage accounts for the same right? and what about fslogixs? Could you please make a video on the same!

[@krishnakumar-rx2jv]

Hi bro can u please show us how to configure fs logix in AVD

[@adiljanjua1917]

How and where would you install application like Sage or Databse like Dentally so all AVD user could use the same application ?

[@bearded365guy]

@@adiljanjua1917 We have clients like this - we would put it on an Azure Virtual Desktop for sure.

[@adiljanjua1917]

You are a superstar , explain really well.

[@harrysearia1784]

Would AVD be a good solution as a Jumpbox for vendors to have temporary access to domain network servers? If not, what solutions are recommended?

[@severorms]

Are there any problems using linux clients? Another question: A few years ago, I worked at a company that used ThinClients (very cheap ones) with a simple interface with only host and password fields. Is it possible to use them to connect to AVD?

[@bearded365guy]

Honestly, never used on Linux. I’m not a massive thin client fan either but you’re welcome to try!

[@fbifido2]

how do you auto config word, outlook, excel, etc... outlook signature, word custom templates, etc....

[@ijasmohammed7183]

Hey Jonathan, great video. I do have a doubt. Recently I deployed two AVDs and I have enabled the time redirection for both AVDs under local group policy editor. My question is when I choose the time for windows update and restart as 3:00am, which timezone does the AVD follow? Is it UTC?

[@rockyusuf0786]

Awesome Edwards All clear now..

[@ChrisBrown-pz9hz]

Great channel 😀 If a user logs on to the first host and the next time they logon due to load balancing they are logged on to the second host for their AVD. Would any configurations or changes they did to their profile be lost?

[@rupeos]

Jonathan props for your video, I have a question tho. Isn't the second case and third case explained similar? At the end, neither company wanted to spend money on getting their equipment for them and they needed access to a private application. Correct me if am wrong. Additionally, wouldn't be easier to set up Windows in a VMs or EC2 instance and set up a Remote Desktop Connection for the users after installing the desired app in the instance. (Trying to understand AVD cases)

[@bearded365guy]

Thanks for your message. Remote Desktop is slowly getting retired. It’s still OK to use today, but we wouldn’t put any new customers on RDP.

[@RobertGordon-h9f]

Jon, awesome video, thanks for sharing this. Very Helpful!

[@shyuuval]

If I'm using Azure virtual desktop- can it create automatically VM when we add new user to security group?

[@bearded365guy]

I don’t think so…

[@obtrunco]

How much quicker and responsive is to use Azure compared to office building based network applications? My experience with office ones is horrible latency.

[@bearded365guy]

It would depend on your internet of course, but as long as it’s decent, it will be ok

[@IamHere2007de]

That is one hell of a great video! CUDOS!

[@bearded365guy]

Thank you

[@hmadnan8135]

Do we have to Create AADDS at first to get it worked. I have created without AADDS and followed all the steps. But when the remote user is trying to connect the session, it will never happen.

[@bearded365guy]

Not for this example. We used Entra

[@hmadnan8135]

@@bearded365guy Thanks mate for the response. But i always get the error. Your session got disconnected because of protocol error.

[@wally974]

For some reason the MFA does not work when I log into my RDP. I just click on the RDP and it loads without prompting for username/password or MFA. Any clue why?

[@RahulRaj-kk4sk]

Awesome video on AVD

[@john14511]

Best play by play ever!

[@fbifido2]

is it possible in 2024-OCT to have a 100% Cloud ONLY AVD deployment with FSLogix ???? no on-prem server, only a firewall, internet-access, and 100 Linux & Win 10 laptop.

[@peterfslife]

I use windows 11, and I had to download the virtual desktop today. In the instructions the guy gave me to get into a Virtual Machine he created for me, He told me to download the app on my computerr, to click the Subscribe button, AND to enter a Username, and Password that HE GAVE ME, which I entered EXACTLY as it was written, and the thing kept saying the account of password is incorrect. UMMMM THAT IS INCORRECT. What's wrong with this stupid thing? HELP

[@sonny.eblacas]

Amazing! This is super helpful

[@hansaleee1678]

I accidentally deleted NetworkWatcherRG. Is there a way to recreate it? I'm completely a beginner.

[@lesleymtho]

Do you need a P1 license or higher for role assignment once you've created your security group?

[@bearded365guy]

I was using Business Premium.

[@alvaropena6353]

I would like to know how to make a backup of the virtual machine? thanks.

[@Faisalx505]

Can I install unknown publisher Software on it or there is some restrictions?

[@Kim-tr1fy]

Great stuff as always. I am still a little confused though. If I have an E5 license this comes with VM but you still have to pay extra for usage? Is that right? I am looking for a solution right now that is just for me. I'm on a Mac but need Windows for testing things like Intune setup and also dealing with limitations with Mac Office Applications vs their Windows counterpart. Would you recommend this or some other way to do testing?

[@bearded365guy]

If just a single virtual desktop you need, look at Windows365. I have a video on my channel.

[@_TheRock]

Thank you, this saved my ass big time, lol. Of course the first VM I deployed failed with an unintelligent DomainJoin/DomainTrust error and ended up as non-contactable. After shitting myself (migration is in one week) I thought I’d try to deploy one more VM to the same pool with exact same settings except for one checkmark: enroll in intune unticked (trial tenant didn’t have intune included). Low and behold it deployed without issues and everything is running perfectly! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Now I just need to figure out how to deploy just a remote app on that vm to end users while admin still has full desktop and how I can schedule it to run only during business hours.

[@HisLoveArmy]

Does Teams work with audio and video?

[@PatienceKimwesa]

Great Video on AVD made the easiest way, thanks.

[@Datageeko]

Amazing video about AVD. Thanks Jonathan

[@MB3-ie]

Great video Jon, you explain the process and use case so simple and easy to understand !

[@MarceloAGonzalezEstrada]

Very well explained, thanks for sharing.

[@Ezioadore23]

This Video Saved my life one, well deserved subscribed

[@robertdsouza7640]

Super and great video

[@Matt-bg5zm]

Can i create these with a M365 basic account or do I need premium or standard?

[@bearded365guy]

Premium!

[@Matt-bg5zm]

@bearded365guy Ta for reply! So when you setup it asks how many users. I setup 1 obviously and will setup a test environment. If setting up a big environment what would you chose? Why would you need more than 1? Confused

[@Vapor_Space]

Excellent tutorial.

[@plianclaudiaandreea201]

Thanks, simple and easy to understand

[@randyhaley5362]

Great video Jonathan.

[@BadAssPercyJ]

Man, THANK YOU!!!!!

[@carlosernestozeledon5037]

amazing content mate, many thanks

[@rlam6750]

nice demo.thanks a lot

[@andrewenglish3810]

What licensing is required for this?

[@bearded365guy]

Business Premium and an Azure subscription

[@thecriticalsin6941]

very informative an useful, thanks for posting

[@davidadams421]

Sweet demo.

[@jcolon4705]

Great Video

[@alexanderwagner3048]

please do More Azure Videos!!

[@kowalski2031]

It doesn't work for me. It asks me to have a professional or school email address.

[@bearded365guy]

@@kowalski2031 Buy a 365 Business Premium license

[@kowalski2031]

@@bearded365guy Thx!

[@Matt-bg5zm]

Do we need to create own domain to buy premium? Or can we use entra. The steps before works be cool

[@kowalski2031]

@@bearded365guy but is there any other way to be allowed to use an Azure virtual desktop ? If I buy a 365 Business Premium license, I won't use Microsoft office (Powerpoint, Word, etc...) and the cost is quite high (24€72/month)

[@nhtna4706]

Make a video on setting up a VM with GPU, n leverage free credits that’s given by Microsoft

[@gjgbrrios]

great video, thanks for sharing

[@jerseypuller]

Great Video thanks!

[@TechBainCool]

GREAT VIDEO

[@ajishb03]

brilliant.. give away.. thanks